What does it mean to bring a new life into the world at a moment when humanity is about to reach a threshold of irreparable climate breakdown? Through this photographic series I explore the tensions between celebration of life and environmental grief which are in the forefront of contemporary political conversations. This project is a meditation on change and transformation, a negotiation between despair and hope which shapes a new generation’s visions of the future. I use photography as a strategy to investigate liminal spaces, transitions between worlds and thresholds of life in relation to body, nature and time.

Does Care Have a Gender?
Montreal 2017-18

This project is an ongoing series of video portraits in
which I film people from my community connected and
connecting through queer kinship in moments of care. My videos are constructed using mini DV tapes
and shot in queer domestic spaces to reclaim this format for
non-heteronormative storytelling and alternative family models. I formally address the subject of
chosen family by referring to home videos which were traditionally used by
straight middle-class families. Featuring: Candi, Lactatia and Coriander, Jordan Brown, George, Pomona and Rose, Shahir, Zev and Jack. Excerpt: https://vimeo.com/312195431

Does Care Have a Gender? is also a zine! It is comprised of diary entries, interviews and photographs exploring intersections of queerness, family and care. Message me for a free PDF or support my work through ordering a phisical copy :)

Diary2014-nowMontreal

In this series I use a diaristic format to present a narrative of my chosen queer family
in order to challenge the normative family models. My project offers
an intimate view on the Montreal LGBTQIA+ communities. In my work, I
employ humour, playfulness and body-positivity as powerful modes of healing
and creating queer kinship. I use the vernacular photographic style
and the 90s snapshot aesthetic to evoke the nostalgic feel of family
archives and home videos. My photographs are mainly constructed using
point-and-shoot 35mm cameras and film. I use a collaborative
approach in order to create non-hierarchical spaces between my
subjects, myself, and my images.

Jordan Brown

Guy and Jamaal

Andy

10 Pine

Navid

Lactatia

Crystal’s wig

Eliane’s bananas

George, Pomona and Rose

Miri

Be and Lee

Alice, Navid and Nima

Sarah Mo

Lactatia and Crystal

Moi

Winnie

10 Pine

Naomi and Kai

CT

Lari

Jamaal on his wedding night

Skidhouse

Lari and Sigrid

Camille

Candi

Kimura

Rehab Girls 2013Lodz, Poland

The
series “Rehab Girls” was created in my hometown - Lodz, Poland in a rehab for female
“criminal” youth where my grandmother babcia Krysia used to work and where I’ve spent a lot of time as a child following her at work. I returned to this place as an adult and photographed 18 year-old girls during their last months of
rehabilitation. The series examines the tension between toughness and fragility
of those teenage girls.

Rehab Boys
2013
Pereira, Colombia

“Rehab
Boys” is a series of portraits of drug addicts from a rehab Corazonez Valientes in Pereira,
Colombia. I met them during my 6-month travel in South America.
I photographed them in their personal spaces giving them agency on how they want to be represented in a spirit of collaboration. I acknowledge the privilage that comes with my position of an outider to this community.